Sweet Exorcist (band)

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Sweet exorcist
General information
origin Sheffield , UK
Genre (s) IDM , Bleep Techno
founding 1990
resolution 1994
Founding members
Richard Barratt
Richard H. Kirk
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Test One
  UK 85 02/17/1990 (7 weeks)
Clonk
  UK 79 12/22/1990 (3 weeks)

Sweet Exorcist were a British band who were considered to be the forerunners of the so-called bleep techno .

Band history

The band, whose name went back to a piece of music by Curtis Mayfield , consisted of the two musicians Richard H. Kirk ( Cabaret Voltaire ) and Richard "DJ Parrot" Barratt (later a member of All Seeing I ). Kirk and Barratt had both known each other since the mid-1980s. Barratt had already gone on tour with Cabaret Voltaire in 1986. After working on individual pieces before, Barratt suggested to Kirk that a track made of studio test tones. In January 1990, the single Testone was released on Warp Records . The piece is considered one of the first bleep techno tracks. The second release was the single Clonk , which also appeared on Warp. Remix versions were also released for both releases.

In 1991 the duo released the CCEP , which later appeared as a CD version CCED . In 1994 the album Spirit Guide To Low Tech was released on Touch Records .

Warp released the compilation album RetroActivity in 2011 .

Discography

Albums

  • 1994: Spirit Guide To Low Tech (Touch Records)
  • 2011: RetroActivity (Compilation Album; Warp Records )

Singles & EPs

  • 1990: Testone (Warp Records)
  • 1990: Testone Remixes (Warp Records)
  • 1990: Clonk (Warp Records)
  • 1990: Per Clonk (Remix) (Warp Records)
  • 1991: CCEP (Warp Records)
  • 1991: Popcone (Plastex)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: UK
  2. ↑ a b c Interview Sweet Exorcist / Richard H. Kirk: This Used To Be The Future. Retrieved February 23, 2014 .
  3. ^ Dan Sicko, Bill Brewster: Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk. Wayne State University, 2010, ISBN 978-0814334386
  4. ↑ Sweet Exorcist: Retro Activity (Warp Records). Retrieved February 23, 2014 .